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New Tourism Websites – Feb 6, 2005
Ontario town and country offers getaway packages and ideas.
Interesting website, (hopefully) aimed to promote short haul getaways. I’d say it does the job reasonably well.VisitScotland has an ancestral website in which people with a Scottish background can trace their family tree.
Great way to attract tourists with Scottisch roots.I was so exited to hear aboutwww.visitsouthasia.org, a website to promote “Nature, Culture, Adventure” and “Buddhist Heartland”
Unfortunately, it’s a brochure dumped in a Flash website, literally.www.phuket-photos.com: pictures of the Tsunami devastation and recovery
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Please downgrade your browser
The MSN homepage received an interesting makeover with the launch of the new MSN search. It’s a big step toward Web Standards. Not that the homepage validates or anything but it’s a step in the right direction.
My enthusiasm was quickly tempered when I pointed my Firefox browser towards the Advertising Link on the search results screen. A good old “Please Upgrade Your Browser” message appeared. So in order for me to spend my advertising dollars with MSN, I need to meet a technology requirement. That would be like Shell only accepting Fords in their gas stations. It’s ridiculous.
At least call it “Please downgrade your browser” because the suggested browsers aren’t exactly an upgrade.
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New MSN Search
Microsoft launched its long awaited Search today by adding the beta search to the MSN homepage. Another move in the Search Engine chess game (I’m going to stop calling it wars, because that’s where people die in).
It’s exciting and frustrating all together. Competition is good. It sparks innovation and could drive prices for Search Engine Marketing down. But it also gives us a whole new Search Engine to optimize for and SEM ads to manage if MSN gain market share over Google.
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A9 Blockview, this is awesome
What a bit of competition can accomplish. Definitely an outsider in the Search Engine Battle, A9.com (owned by Amazon.com) continues to do innovative things. They’ve recently launched this crazy new feature called block view. It’s a basic local search, based on the yellow page listings, including search results on a map, but they’ve combined it with photos of the storefront of businesses. And then it let’s you ‘walk’ down the block.
I’m wondering if this is brilliant or one of those, “let’s do it because we can”. Either way, the way they do it is very slick. And how on earth are they planning to keep the pictures up to date? Businesses come and go. We’ll find out.
A better application in my mind would be do drive down all freeways and take pictures of the exits and put them in a driving directions application.
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I want to live in one of these!
So here’s the plan. I’m going to buy a couple of these spheres, hang them in Stanley Park and fullfill a livelong dream of becoming an elf and live in Lothlorien. Hopefully my wife and cats agree.
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Firefox 1.0
While on my trip to London and Amsterdam, the Mozilla foundation released Firefox 1.0. I encourage everybody to download the best browser available at this point and time and help to bring back the browser innovation not seen since the late 90′s.
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Engadget interview with Mike Ramsay, CEO of TiVo
TiVo is one of those companies that gets it. They looked at the user of TV and recognized a way to enhance their experience by giving them more control over the User Experience of TV. Mike Samsay explains it well in an interview with Engadget:
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Blown away by the Google Desktop Search
I installed the new Google Desktop Search today and…WOW. This is amazing. It indexed all 23,000 files. Now, when I Google something, it displays the number of result from my own files plus the top two results. The interface is just like the regular Google results and so far it works like a charm. It seems to give more weight to recent files. Makes sense. It hasn’t been able to index my emails yet. It seems to be a problem with Outlook though, because Outlook has given me some problems lately. When my 75,000 emails are indexed, I will be ecstatic. This is going to make life much easier.
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Alertbox: Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
Excellent Alertbox by Jacob Nielsen. I thought it’s stating the obvious but it still surprises my how many marketers, designers and techies just don’t get it. This article is a very nice summary.
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Two weeks without Internet for US$950?
I don’t think so, but Yahoo! and OMD found 13 household that were willing to do just that. The results are interesting but predictable. The Internet has become an import part of peoples daily activities and they have become reliant on it. Glad I’m not the only one.
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William Bakker is Chief Strategist at Think! Social Media. These are my personal thoughts.
